All the (frosty) fun of the fair - Mill Road Winter Fair 2014!

We're proud to be back at Mill Road Winter Fair this year! This Saturday (6 Dec) Mill Road becomes an all-day celebration of food, music and culture, and we're delighted to be playing at the Ditchburn Place stage at 3.45pm. Wrap up warm and come along!

Local Secrets have just written a nice little piece about what you can expect...

Scissors tipple

Every band seems to be coming out with their own branded ale or other beverage these days. We can't quite stretch to that, but if you want a Scissor-flavoured drink, why not try mixing all our favourite tipples together?

Stewart's tipple: Jack Daniels or any half decent Italian red wine
Toby's tipple: Gin, or Blue Nun (other brands of rocket fuel are available)
Simon's tipple: Scrumpy, or other 'proper' cider
Huw's tipple: Monster energy drink (other brands of insanity-inducing energy drinks are available)

Pour 142ml of each of the above into a pint glass. Put on a Scissors record. Enjoy.

The Scissors remind you to listen to our records responsibly.

Groovin' the Grape!

It's been a little while since we've been in live action (though it was a very busy summer, with a few mystery private gigs between the scheduled ones), but we're back!
Friday 17 October we'll be playing Cambridge's The Grapes (19 Histon Road, CB4 3JB), with our fantastic chums Bouquet of Dead Crows and Trouser Crisis!
The perfect end to your week - and free entry too!

CamCon - find out more! LocalSecrets article...

Patrick Widdess has written a great little preview article about CamCon, giving some hints of what's to come. There's a mini-interview with us near the end of the article.
Get your geek on and see us on 30 August at the Junction!

Playing sci-fi/gaming paradise CamCon in August!

This August we'll be getting down'n'geeky playing at CamCon at Cambridge Junction.
CamCon is is a multi-genre 'geek culture' convention, now in its third year, which caters for all genres of fandom from anime to gaming, sci-fi, comics and everything in between. There'll be cosplay, gaming, workshops and panels - and live music in the evening from 7pm, including us!
It's on Saturday 30 August, at Cambridge Junction. 

Supporting Raglans tonight!

Want to work off those Easter eggs? Then head along to the Portland Arms, Cambridge, tonight and bounce around like a mad thing as we support the mighty Raglans!
It's gonna be a great night...

Album recording

We've finally found some time to continue work on our next album, and have got the basis of most of the rest of the tracks in the can. There are still guitar and vocal overdubs to do and a fair bit of knob twiddling, but the tracklisting is sorted and in rough form it's got the feel we were after. All coming together nicely!

It has a title too, which we'll reveal shortly. The vibe of the album (and cover) is 1890s music halls, conjurers and illusionists, magic lantern phantasmagoria, fake seances, and a big slab of psychedelia...